Can you get pale again when old and dark

[hiwasuwor]

When you are a kid and you spend all summer outside and became very tanned, you can obviously loose that tan during the winter and get back to pale again. However what is it like if you are a 40 Year old constructionworker who works outside with body exposed to the sun for 20 years. These people are ussually very brown/tan. Can they become pale like a teenager again if they avoid sun for a few years or is it at that point already impossible to ever become pale again?

 

[BucketCrab]

Sun damage is cumulative.
When you're young, you have not accumulated enough sun damage for it to be permanent yet, but after 20 years of constant beatings, your skin gives up and accepts it's got to be melanin-enriched year round.

Most sun damage doesn't really show up before 10 years from when you got it anyways. It tends to come all at once around middle age.

 

[hiwasuwor]

Sun damage is cumulative.
When you're young, you have not accumulated enough sun damage for it to be permanent yet, but after 20 years of constant beatings, your skin gives up and accepts it's got to be melanin-enriched year round.

Most sun damage doesn't really show up before 10 years from when you got it anyways. It tends to come all at once around middle age.

thats brutal. Constructionworkers will make fun of you when you use sunscreen, they think its gay. Meanwhile office wagies will use sunscreen for beeing exposed one hour to sun. construction workers dont use any of.